KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri mother accused of forcing her emaciated 10-year-old daughter to eat, sleep and go to the bathroom inside a locked closet was found guilty Friday of abusing the girl.
A Jackson County jury took less than three hours to find the woman guilty of endangering the welfare of a child, first-degree assault and child abuse against her daughter, who weighed only 32 pounds when police officers responding to a child abuse hotline call in June 2012 found her barricaded in the urine-soaked closet in a Kansas City ...